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In reply to the discussion: Black voters deserve all the credit for the Doug Jones win in Alabama [View all]Peaceful Protester
(280 posts)37. Thank You All
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the "colored section."
On Sunday, December 4, 1955, plans for the Montgomery Bus Boycott were announced at black churches in the area.
In December 1964, Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) joined forces with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Selma, Alabama, where the SNCC had been working on voter registration for several months.
On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of peaceful protesters in a nonviolent demonstration to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
During the 1965 march to Montgomery, Alabama, violence by state police against peaceful protesters resulted in much publicity, making Alabama's racism visible nationwide.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott established Martin Luther King as a leader in the civil rights movement in Alabama.
"...the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Doug Jones was elected senator of Alabama in a special election held on Tuesday, December 12, 2017.
Doug Jones had previously prosecuted Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry, two members of the Ku Klux Klan, for their roles in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four little African-American girls on Sunday, September 15, 1963.
Doug Jones had previously prosecuted Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry, two members of the Ku Klux Klan, for their roles in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four little African-American girls on Sunday, September 15, 1963.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today."
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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Black voters deserve all the credit for the Doug Jones win in Alabama [View all]
oberliner
Dec 2017
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I expect that voter suppression in black communities by the GOP will ramp up after this. (nt)
ehrnst
Dec 2017
#5
Huh? I hope it inspires more whites to get out and vote Dem. African Americans have been doing...
brush
Dec 2017
#71
The point is Jones actually worked for their vote, and didn't take their vote for granted
still_one
Dec 2017
#78
Mitch McConnell should send them a thank-you card. They saved his ass a big damn headache
Volaris
Dec 2017
#48
The eye rolling is because you are trying to make this tit-for-tat and it isnt
Fullduplexxx
Dec 2017
#30
If white male voters had their way, Trump would have carried nearly every state including NY and CA
oberliner
Dec 2017
#29
Thank you for progressive white voters who came out for Jones. Now we have to work on...
brush
Dec 2017
#72
This is the reason why polls and the 538 group is more poll pushing than precient.
Baitball Blogger
Dec 2017
#34
This should be used as an example to POC that they can control the outcome of elections.
LiberalFighter
Dec 2017
#51
Hope the citizens of Al get some attention for thier concerns from the new senator and won't
lunasun
Dec 2017
#54
Turnout in Dem areas was the key to victory ... and God is a black woman Roy!
L. Coyote
Dec 2017
#56
I am continually embarrassed by most white voters in America, not just in Alabama
Tom Rinaldo
Dec 2017
#68
SO happy and relieved for this win in Alabama-Big Thanks to all that made it happen!!!
VaBchTgerLily
Dec 2017
#60
That simply is not True. Yes african american vote was huge but it was more than that
lancelyons
Dec 2017
#61
If you say 53 percent of white women voted for Moore...47 percent of them voted Jones.
lancelyons
Dec 2017
#65
The GOP was counting on their suppression tactics to neutralize the black vote.
guillaumeb
Dec 2017
#76